Why?

Every once in a while I get the "why do you do this?" question which I usually answer with some semi-coherent rambling about the necessity for a city planner to have unmitigated experiences with the urban infrastructure, and the forgotten beauty that lies right beneath our everyday lives, and so on and so forth. Luckily, there are others out there who can answer this question with much more eloquence than I. Check one of them out - a colleague from across the pond - here.

Read the interview and you'll see that eventually he lets you in on a little secret. We all have our varying justifications for our nutty hobby, be they academic, artistic, or something else. But none of us would do this if it wasn't really, really fun.